Members of the family Cynoglossidae, the tonguefishes are for the most part too small to be of much interest as food fishes.
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Tonguefish
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Malayalam
1 entries- മാന്തൾ noun (Cynoglossidae)
Portuguese
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The tonguefishes are flatfishes found in the tropical and subtropical seas of the world, hut some species are found in freshwater hahitats (see Achiridae for a discussion of flatfishes).
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But the tonguefish are unaffected by the noxious gases. The ”narked" fish end up as chow for the tonguefish.
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